Mobile Regional in August 2023

88.7%departed on time

BTS: A flight is counted as on time if it arrived less than 15 minutes after its scheduled time. Only carriers with at least 0.5 percent of domestic scheduled passenger revenue report.

In August 2023, reporting carriers scheduled 213 domestic departures from Mobile Regional (MOB). 88.7% left less than 15 minutes late and 87.3% reached their destination on time; 2.3% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 76.7% of flights departed on time and 76.9% arrived on time, so MOB departures were 12.0 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at MOB that month were on time 84.5% of the time (213 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 39%, national aviation system 31% and air carrier 30%.

On time 87.3%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 9.9%
Cancelled 2.3%
Diverted 0.5%

Every scheduled departure from MOB in August 2023, judged by arrival at the destination.

August 2023 against a year earlier, the airport's year and the nation

Measure	Aug 2023	Year earlier	MOB, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Aug 2023
Departed on time	88.7%	—	80.2%	76.7%
Arrived on time	87.3%	—	80.0%	76.9%
Cancelled	2.3%	—	3.0%	1.5%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	8.1 min	—	15.3 min	17.3 min
Scheduled departures a day	7	—	6	20,100
Scheduled departures	213	—	2,071	602,987

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
MQ Envoy Air	93	44%	97.8%	-12.1 min	0.0%
9E Endeavor Air	87	41%	81.6%	-3.8 min	2.3%
DL Delta Air Lines	33	15%	72.7%	7.6 min	9.1%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
MOB–ATL	Mobile to Atlanta	120	79.2%	-0.8 min	4.2%
MOB–DFW	Mobile to Dallas/Fort Worth	93	97.8%	-12.1 min	0.0%

By scheduled departure hour

100

On-time share:under 62%6270768288% and over

Share of departures that left less than 15 minutes late, by scheduled hour (local time), August 2023.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Aug 2023	Minutes
Air carrier	29.6%	36.7%	476
Late-arriving aircraft	39.3%	42.2%	633
National Aviation System	31.1%	15.7%	500
Extreme weather	0.0%	5.1%	0
Security	0.0%	0.2%	0

1,609 delay minutes on 21 flights that arrived 15 or more minutes late and carried a cause report. Carriers assign the categories; see what each category means.

Questions and answers

How many flights left MOB on time in August 2023?

88.7% of 213 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 87.3% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 76.7% and 76.9%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

August 2022 is outside the 36 months on file, or the airport had too few reported flights that month.

Provenance

Source: Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Reporting Carrier On-Time Performance, file for August 2023; public domain. Domestic scheduled flights by reporting carriers, totals and averages only. The site's data runs through July 2026. Full record for MOB · methodology · corrections.